Poet and Song Writer Killed for A Protest Song
PEN International is appalled by the murder on July 5, 2011, of poet and song writer Ibrahim Qashoush, known as "the singer of the revolution." Qashoush’s body was found… More
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Now banned: School board in Hillsborough FL voted today to ban "This Book is Gay". This is after 2 committees reviewed it and voted to keep it in schools. Here's what Juno Dawson told us @PENamerica about efforts to ban the book last fall. /1 https://twitter.com/PinkNews/status/1640834900684333056?t=Nq5SySk-nlbsC-x3UE6VbA&s=19
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Introducing PEN America's Twitter Bot Detection Toolkit...
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BREAK OUT March 29 at @TheHookMpls! Join us to celebrate the best in prison writing—award-winning works include C. Fausto, Davi, Elizabeth, and Zeke, with special guests Dallas, and poets Roy Guzmán, and Gwen Westerman, Minnesota Poet Laureate https://thehookmpls.com/event/breakout-prisonwritingawards2022/